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Quiet

November 21, 2013

Pink Tropical Flower ~ photo by Patrice

Quiet
Quietly moving past eternity
Into depths full of ecstasy.

Pause
Step forth into your realm
Saturated with the crown
Of great things done and to do.

All
All this, this is you.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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Snow Lies And Blows

November 20, 2013

Stormy Road ~ photo by Patrice

Snow lies and blows
Across the space not enclosed
Cold and frigid it has no soul
Just blowing, blowing cold.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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Why Do We Try?

November 19, 2013

Rainy Waterfall ~ photo by Patrice

Why do we try?
Why do we cry?
Why do we die?

What else is there to learn
When we’ve learnt it all?

Silly oh so small is the mind
Maybe that wonders such things
Holding those thoughts
Not moving forward at all.

Why?
Wondering that’s all.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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Hydro Out There Is No Doubt

November 18, 2013

Fallen Tree ~ photo by Patrice

 

 

 

 

 

Hydro out there is no doubt
Smash and crash
Is what the wind has been
Whining, howling across the span
Bending, breaking trees
Dashing dreams and all things
Seen, unseen.

Mutter, sputter does no good
Hydro out
As the onslaught marches
Destroying its way thru
Listen, listen to the howling wind
Crashing, smashing thru.
~ Patrice

 

 

 

 

 

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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Make It So

November 17, 2013

Owl ~ illustration by Patrice

Make it so. Make it right.
Make it so right.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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Nothing Is Never

November 16, 2013

giraffe ~ art by Patrice

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nothing is never
And will always be
Something that never
Feels responsibility.

That is what it is
All around and down
Is what it is.

Sadly, sadly
Nothing never is.
~ Patrice

 

 

 

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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All Three In A Row

November 15, 2013

All three in a row 
Sitting, resting nowhere to go. 

Pleasant and mild 
The height of haute style 
Sitting, resting
Certainly to be there awhile.

 Ah, doesn’t it make you smile. 
~ Patrice  

Summer Chairs in Winter ~ photo by Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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Today Someone Died A Long Time Ago

November 14, 2013

Today someone died a long time ago
He changed my life
The course of things that could have been
And my time with him
May not have been so smooth
But I remember him
Yes, I remember him from so long ago.

Adieu, may peace and God be with you
My love, my friend adieu.
~ Patrice

Orange Lily ~ photo by Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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Going Back Over The Past

November 13, 2013

Cobwebs and Geraniums ~ photo by Patrice

Going back over the past
Seeing things different
Now that I’m relaxed.

Joy sometimes
Anger and anguish at other
But these emotions
These emotions are mine.

I’ll filter with joy, anger and anguish
All those emotions that are mine
While relaxed, going back, thru the past.
~ Patrice  

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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See The Words On The Page

November 12, 2013

Lilacs ~ photo by Patrice

See the words on the page
Bring them out from where they lie
Sing their lovely, lilting song
As you gently nudge to where they belong.

See words filled with wondrous thoughts
No sadness or hateful things
Just beauty radiating, singing
Now and into spring.

Bring these words to the page
Let them shout, sing their happiness
Here and all about
These beauty words you’re bringing out.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013